Display rack for shoes and the like



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DISPLAY RAK FOR SHOES AND THE LIKE Fi 1ed Dec. 1927 Patented May 14, 1929.

UNITE STA'llrlS rarr OFFICE.

FREDERICK 1?. DUSTAN, Oiii SALAMANCA, INTEJW YORK, AFJSIGNOB TO SHOSUM' IVIANU- FAG'I'URING GOERPORATIUIN, OLE SALA'MANCA, NEW YORK, it CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISPLAY RACK FOR SHOES AND THE LIKE.

Application filed December 2, 1927.

This invention relates to a display rack which has been designed more particularly for displaying shoes, but which may likewise be used for displaying other articles. Itschiet object is the provision of a device of this character which is constructed and arranged to reliably support the shoes in a position for effectively displaying them, and which provides for the showing of a maximum number of shoes in a minimum amount of floor space.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a portable display rack of this character which is simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, and whose parts may be readily dismembered and assembled for convenience in shipping.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a shoe rack embodying my invention. Figure 2 is an end view thereof, partly in sect-ion. Figure 3 is a horizontal section on line 8-3, Figure 1. Figure l is anenlarged transverse section on line 4.4i, Figure 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several. views.

My improved shoe rack has been designed to stand in a substantially upright position on the floor and is of such a nature that it can be readily shifted about to suit the convenience of the merchant. To this end it consists of a suitable frame composed of spaced uprights 10, 10 oi angle bars or other appropriate material and curved outwardly at their lower ends to provide supporting feet 11. A brace 12, preferably ct U-shape, is detachably connected at its upper end to the uprights by a jainb-nut 13 and thumb-screw 1 1, said brace being disposed to support the rack in a slightly roan wardly inclined position, as shown in Figure 2.

Attached. to the front sides of the frameuprights 10, by welding or otherwise, are a plurality of horizontal supporting bars 15 arranged in. parallel relation and, by preference, made of angle iron whose vertical flanges 16 engage fiatwise against the uprights while their horizontal flanges 17 project forwardly therefrom. Mounted on each of these bars are a series of shoe-rests 18 which are preferably made of wire bent into a substantially U-sh ape and which overhang or extend forwardly from the bars to sup- Serial No. 237,297.

port the sole-portion oi the shoe, the heel portion oi the shoe engaging the vertical bar-flange. The rear ends 01'' the legs 19 oi the shoe-rests are ollset or bent laterally outward, as indicated at 20 in Figure 3, and terminate in upstanding lugs or projections 21 which are adapted to be inserted through openings 22 formed in the vertical flanges or the supporting bars for detachably hooking the shoerests in place. In applying the shoe-rests to the supporting bars, each one is held in a tilted position while its legs are sprung together to allow the anchoring lugs 21 to be inserted into a corresponding pair of openings 22, after which it is swung downwardly to the position shown in the drawings. In this position, those portions of the shoe-rest legs in front of their client portions 20 rest by gravity on the front edge of the horizontal flange 17 of the supporlting bar, while their upstanding legs abut against the rear side of the vertical flange 16 of said bar. The offset portions 20 and lugs 21 prevent transverse displacement of the shoe-restsrelative to their supporting bars, and the engagement of said lugs with the vertical flange of its supporting bar and the point bearing of the shoe-rest legs 19 011 the horizontal flange thereof positively retains the rest in its forwardly-inclined position shown in the drawings.

The legs 19 of the shoe-rest may be curved in the manner clearly shown in Figure 1 and the front portion of the shoe engages the cross bar of the wire-rest, while the rear portion thereof immediately in front of the heel rests 011 the vertical flange of the supporting bar 15 with the trout face of the heel. abutting against the rear side oil. said flange to prevent the shoe from slipping forwardly oil the rest. The lugs 21 oi? the latter projeet a sufficient distance above the top edge of the bar-flange 1G to constitute side abutments for preventing displacement 01" the shoe lengthwise of the bar. For the pur pose of avoiding marring the shoes from contact with these lugs, the latter may be provided with sleeve-pads 23 of rubber or like material.

By the provision oi"? a rack oil this charac ter, the entire shoe is effectively and attractively displayed so that the customer and salesman may readily select the particular style of footwear desired. Furthermore, the device is simple and compact requiring but was a minimum of floor space for displaying a maximum number of shoes, and it can be readily assembled and dismembered. Vhile theinvention is shown for use in connection with the showing of shoes, it will be understood that its structure is such that it is equally applicable for displaying other articles.

' I claim as my invention 1. A display rack, comprising a frame including-a supporting bar of angle shape in cross section, the vertical flange of said bar having a pair of openings therein, and a substantially U-shaped article-rest having its free ends detaehably engaging said bar openings and terminating in upstanding lugs arranged to bear against the rear side of said vertical bar-flange, the article-rest bearing at a point intermediate its ends on the front edge of the horizontal bar-flange, said lugs extending above the top edge of said vertical bar-flange to form abutments between which the article is located.

2. A display rack, comprising a frame including a supporting bar of angle shape in cross section, the vertical flange of said bar having a pair of openings therein and the horizontal flange extending forwardly from the lower edge of said vertical flange, and a substantially U-shaped article-rest of wire mounted on the supporting bar and projecting forwardly therefrom, the legs of said rest being engageable with said bar openings and provided adjacent their rear ends in front of said vertical bar-flange with laterally offset portions and the ends of the latter terminating in rear of said verti *al flange in upstanding lugs arranged to bear against such flange, the legs of said rest bearing intermediate their front and rear ends on the front edge of said vertical bar-flange.

3. A display rack, comprising a frame including a pair of spaced uprights and a plurality of horizontal angle-bars mounted on said uprights, the vertical flange of each bar engaging said uprights and having pairs of openings therein and its horizontal flange facing forwardly, a brace for holding said frame in a substantially upright position, and a plurality of U-shaped article-rests of wire detachably mounted on said bars and extending forwardly therefrom, each of said rests having its legs engaging a pair of said bar-openings and being provided in front of such opening-engaging portions with lateral offset portions and terminating in rear of the former in upstanding lugs arranged to bear against the vertical bar-flange, those portions of the legs in front and adjacent to the offset portions resting by gravity on the front edge of the horizontal bar-flange, said lugs projecting above the top edge of the vertical bar-flange to form side abutments between which the article is located FREDERICK P. DUSTAN. 

